Edward blount



(No Model.)

B BLOUNT TURPENTINE HACK.

' Patented Feb. 4,1896.

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ATTORNEYS.

llwirn terns EDlVARD BLOUNT, OF QUITMAN, GEORGIA, ASSIGNOR, BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO THE BLOUNT TURPENTINE TOOL COMPANY,

OF SAME PLACE.

TU RPENTlNE-HACK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 554,210, dated February 4, 1896.

Application filed April 27, 1895. Serial No. 547,339. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD BLOUNT, of

, Quitman, in the county of Brooks and State of Georgia, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Turpentine-Hacks, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improvement in turpentine-hacks and hack-stocks; and it consists in certain novel constructions and combinations of parts, as will be hereinafter more fully described and pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view, and Fig. 2 a longitudinal section, of my hack. Fig. 3 is a partial longitudinal section, and Fig. 4c is a cross-section.

My improved hack is shown as comprising the handle-body A, having reduced or tenon portion B at one end to receive the weight O, the tenon or reduced portion D at its other end to receive the ferrule or sleeve E-and bored longitudinally at F for the holding-bar G, the upper portion of the bore F being enlarged and the corresponding portion of the bar G being likewise formed, as shown. The handle-body A also has transverse slot at to receive the shank of the hack.

The sleeve E fits on the reduced end D of the handle and has slots e registering with slot a of the handle, while the bar G, fitting in the bore F, has aslot g corresponding with slots a, and such slots register when the sleeve, bar, and handle are properly associated, as shown, and the shank H of the cutter or hack proper I fits in the way formed by slots at e g. The hack-shank II is provided in its opposite edges with notches h, in which the edge Walls of the slots fit, as shown in Fig. 2.

It will be seen that by providing a number of the notches h the hack may be adjusted transversely of the handle to set its cutting portions any desired distance laterally to said handle to suit the user or the particular charactor of timber with which it is designed to use the hack.

The hack, as before suggested, is conveniently reversible and has its upper and lower edges sharpened and its extremity connecting such edges also sharpened and rounded.

Thus either the end or either edge of the hack may be used in forming the cut and by means of the curved or rounded connecting edge the cut may be made of Varying lengths from side to side, as may be desired.

By making the hack conveniently reversible one edge can be used after the other, thus avoiding delays required to sharpen the hack.

The arrangement of the ferrule or sleeve, handle-body, and holding-bar is such that the shank of the hack is furnished a strong rigid seat.

It will be understood that in operation the holding-bar G being drawn downward by its securing-nut presses the notches of the hackshank into engagement with the lower walls of the slots 6 of the ferrule, thus securing the tool firmly in place.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a turpentinehack the combination with the handle, the holding -bar and the hack-shank of the ferrule engaging the hackshank substantially as set forth.

2. In a turpentine-hack the combination with the handle, and sleeve or ferrule slotted as described of the hack-shank and holdingbar substantially as described.

3. In a turpentine-hack the combination with the handle of the sleeve having transverse slots, the hack-shank fitted in said slots and the holding-bar by which the shank may described consisting of the handle boredlongislots and notched, and the nut on the holdtudinally and having; the opposite end tening-bar all substantially as and for the pur- 1o ons the weight fitted 011 one end tenon the poses set forth. ferrule 0r sleeve on the other, the holding- I T W 5 bar extended longitudinally through the han- EDXVARD LLOL h dle, such holding-bar, handle and ferrule Witnesses: having coincident transverse slots, the re- JOSEPH D. \VILSON, versible cutter having its shank fitted in said O. K. J ELKs. 

